Earl Weaver, the fiery Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games with theBaltimore Orioles, has died, the team says. He was 82.

Weaver was traveling on an Orioles fantasy cruise in the Caribbean when he collapsed in his room with wife, Maryanne, at his side on the cruise’s ship at about 2 a.m. Saturday, the New York Daily News reported.

“A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.”
One of the most quotable, irascible, intelligent men ever to manage a major league team.

I think Say Hey said it (about nght games) first long before anyone knew who Earl Weaver was, including Earl .

He was a great character in baseball history. His intensity, a shared trait with virtually all great coaches in every sport was epic. Always loved the story with Jim Palmer, in a train wreck sorta way.

And planning on how he’ll handle Jim Pamer when he gets there – and how he can make his afterlife as a pitcher as miserable as possible, when Palmer comes up with some malady or other as an excuse not to pitch that day. ;-)

i remember the first time i ever saw him do that (i’m sure he’d done it before, i just didn’t see it), watching a game on tv. cracked me up. i’m a die hard yankees fan, but you had to appreciate a guy like weaver.

I remember how he could put competitive teams on the field in the years of free agency with teams that had only one great player — such as the 1982 O’s that only had Eddie Murray and an aging Jim Palmer, yet finished one game out of first place winning 94 games brilliantly using Lowenstein and Roenicke in left field to combine for 45 homers and 140 RBIs, http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BAL/1982.shtml Perhaps his most brilliant season when compared to the teams spending so much more on free agents.